The Internet Archive is an American digital library founded on May 10, 1996, and chaired by free information advocate Brewster Kahle. It provides free access to collections of digitized materials like websites, software applications, music, audiovisual and print materials. The Archive is also an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. As of January 1, 2023, the Internet Archive holds more than 36 million print materials, 11.6 million pieces of audiovisual content, 2.5 million software programs, 15 million audio files, 4.5 million images, 251,000 concerts and over 808 billion web pages in its Wayback Machine. More information...
According to PR-model, archive.org is ranked 6th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 6th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before nytimes.com and after worldcat.org in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.